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Lauren Stewart is affiliated with Goldsmiths University of London in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Medicine and Psychology. Their research spans various subfields including Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, and Clinical Psychology.

The main topics of their work include Neuroscience and Music Perception, Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum, Music Therapy and Health, Infant Development and Preterm Care, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Multisensory Perception and Integration, and Prenatal Substance Exposure Effects.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Katie Rose M. Sanfilippo, Cassandra Heiselman, Kimberly Herrera, David Garry, and Vivette Glover.

Stewart's recent papers cover a range of topics related to music, mental health, and infant development. Notable publications include:

  • "How music may support perinatal mental health: an overview" (2021), Archives of Women s Mental Health
  • "Community psychosocial music intervention (CHIME) to reduce antenatal common mental disorder symptoms in The Gambia: a feasibility trial" (2020), BMJ Open
  • "The impact of the home musical environment on infants' language development" (2021), Infant Behavior and Development
  • "Signals through music and dance: Perceived social bonds and formidability on collective movement" (2020), Acta Psychologica
  • "Melodic expectations in 5- and 6-year-old children" (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Among the venues where their research is frequently published are the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, PLoS ONE, BMJ Open, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), and Archives of Women s Mental Health.

Lauren Stewart has also contributed to academic literature in the form of book publications, including work published by UNESCO titled "The significance of scale patterns and scale readings in the life history and habits of the salmon" (2021).

Best Publications

  • The Musicality of Non-Musicians: An Index for Assessing Musical Sophistication in the General Population

    Daniel Müllensiefen;Bruno Gingras;Jason Musil;Lauren Stewart

  • The macrophage-inducible C-type lectin, Mincle, is an essential component of the innate immune response to Candida albicans

    Christine A Wells;Judith A Salvage-Jones;Xin Li;Kelly Hitchens

  • Music and the brain: disorders of musical listening

    Lauren Stewart;Katharina von Kriegstein;Jason D. Warren;Timothy D. Griffiths

  • Motor and phosphene thresholds: a transcranial magnetic stimulation correlation study

    L.M Stewart;V Walsh;J.C Rothwell

  • Singing and social bonding: changes in connectivity and pain threshold as a function of group size

    Daniel Weinstein;Jacques Launay;Eiluned Pearce;Robin I M Dunbar

  • Brain changes after learning to read and play music.

    Lauren Stewart;Rik Henson;Knut Kampe;Vincent Walsh

  • Intonation processing in congenital amusia: discrimination, identification and imitation

    Fang Liu;Aniruddh D. Patel;Adrian Fourcin;Lauren Stewart

  • Reduced sensitivity to emotional prosody in congenital amusia rekindles the musical protolanguage hypothesis

    William Forde Thompson;Manuela M. Marin;Lauren Stewart

  • Developmental phonagnosia: a selective deficit of vocal identity recognition.

    Lúcia Garrido;Frank Eisner;Carolyn McGettigan;Lauren Stewart

  • How do “earworms” start? Classifying the everyday circumstances of Involuntary Musical Imagery:

    Victoria J. Williamson;Sagar R. Jilka;Joshua Fry;Sebastian Finkel

  • Motion perception and perceptual learning studied by magnetic stimulation.

    Stewart L;Battelli L;Walsh;Cowey A

  • Memory for pitch in congenital amusia: Beyond a fine-grained pitch discrimination problem

    Victoria Jane Williamson;Lauren Stewart

  • A murine DC-SIGN homologue contributes to early host defense against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    Antoine Tanne;Bo Ma;Frédéric Boudou;Ludovic Tailleux

  • Electrophysiological correlates of melodic processing in congenital amusia

    Diana Omigie;Marcus T. Pearce;Victoria J. Williamson;Lauren Stewart

  • Tracking of pitch probabilities in congenital amusia.

    Diana Omigie;Marcus T. Pearce;Lauren Stewart

  • Reading music modifies spatial mapping in pianists

    Lauren Stewart;Vincent Walsh;Uta Frith

  • USES AND FUNCTIONS OF MUSIC IN CONGENITAL AMUSIA

    Claire McDonald;Lauren Stewart

  • TMS produces two dissociable types of speech disruption

    Lauren Stewart;Vincent Walsh;Uta Frith;John Rothwell

  • Left posterior BA37 is involved in object recognition: a TMS study.

    Lauren Stewart;Bernd-Ulrich Meyer;Uta Frith;John Rothwell

  • The Mechanism of Speech Processing in Congenital Amusia: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers

    Fang Liu;Cunmei Jiang;William Forde Thompson;Yi Xu

  • Measuring the facets of musicality: The Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI)

    D. Müllensiefen;B. Gingras;J. Musil;L. Stewart

Frequent Co-Authors

Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Frederic Dick
Frederic Dick Birkbeck, University of London
Jason D. Warren
Jason D. Warren University College London
Alan Cowey
Alan Cowey University of Oxford
William Forde Thompson
William Forde Thompson Bond University
Neil G. Muggleton
Neil G. Muggleton National Central University
Paul Ramchandani
Paul Ramchandani University of Cambridge
Andrea R. Halpern
Andrea R. Halpern Bucknell University
Christine A. Wells
Christine A. Wells University of Melbourne

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